1) Millions of pounds from the Queen’s private estate has been invested in a Cayman Islands fund – and some of her money went to a retailer accused of exploiting poor families.
2) Prince Charles’s estate made a big profit on a stake in his friend’s offshore firm.
3) Extensive offshore dealings by Donald Trump’s cabinet members, advisers and donors, including substantial payments from a firm co-owned by Vladimir Putin’s son-in-law to the shipping group of the US commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross.
4) Twitter and Facebook received hundreds of millions of dollars in investments that can be traced back to Russian state financial institutions.
5) The tax-avoiding Cayman Islands trust managed by the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau’s chief moneyman.
6) The Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton avoided taxes on a £17m jet using an Isle of Man scheme.
7) A previously unknown $450m offshore trust that has sheltered the wealth of Lord Ashcroft.
8) Oxford and Cambridge and top US universities invested offshore, with some of the money going into fossil fuel industries.
9) The man managing Angola’s sovereign wealth fund invested it in projects he stood to profit from.
10) Apple secretly moved parts of its empire to Jersey after a row over its tax affairs.
11) How the sportswear giant Nike stays one step ahead of the taxman.
12) The billions in tax refunds by the Isle of Man and Malta to the owners of private jets and luxury yachts.
13) Offshore cash helped fund Steve Bannon’s attacks on Hillary Clinton.
14) The secret loan and alliance used by the London-listed multinational Glencore in its efforts to secure lucrative mining rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
15) The complex offshore webs used by two Russian billionaires to buy stakes in Arsenal and Everton football clubs.
16) Stars of the BBC hit sitcom Mrs Brown’s Boys used a web of offshore companies to avoid tax.
17) British celebrities including Gary Lineker used an arrangement that let them avoid tax when selling homes in Barbados.
18) Prominent Brexit campaigners have put money offshore.
19) An ex-minister who defended tax avoidance has a Bahamas trust fund.
20) The Dukes of Westminster pumped millions into secretive offshore firms.
21) A tax haven lobby group boasted of ‘superb penetration’ at the top of the UK government before a G8 summit that was expected to bring in greater offshore transparency.
22) The law firm at the centre of the Paradise Papers leak was criticised for 'persistent failures’ on terrorist financing and money laundering rules.
23) Seven Republican super-donors keep money in tax havens.
24) A top Democratic donor built up a vast $8bn private wealth fund in Bermuda.
25) The schemes used to avoid tax on UK property deals.
26) The celebrities, from Harvey Weinstein to Shakira, with offshore interests.
27) How a private equity firm tried to extract £890m from a struggling care home operator by making it take out a costly loan.
28) Trump’s close ally Robert Kraft, the New England Patriots owner, is the longtime owner of an offshore firm.
29) One of the world’s biggest touts used an offshore firm to avoid tax on profits from reselling Adele and Ed Sheeran tickets.
Authored by Kenny Walter, Digital Reporter, R&D Magazine
In what could be breakthrough research on human aging, researchers have found a way to rejuvenate inactive senescent cells.
Scientists from the University of Exeter have discovered a new treatment which, within hours, caused older cells to start dividing and grow longer telomeres—the caps on the chromosomes that shorten as humans age.
Read more: https://www.rdmag.com/article/2017/11/researchers-discover-possible-key-rejuvenating-aging-cells
→ i get asked very often about bullet journals, so i put together a masterpost; happy journalling..!! —tia ♪ [+++] more masterposts | all | studygram
i. PURPOSE
official website
official set up video
official bullet journal store
bullet journals vs. planners | what is a bullet journal
five reasons why you should keep a planner
ii. STARTING A BULLET JOURNAL
how to start keeping a journal
keeping up with your journal
how to start your bujo (photos)
intro to bullet journalling | + getting started
two planner system for journalling
bullet journals for beginners | how to bullet journal
contents of a bullet journal
complete illustrated guide to bullet journalling
comprehensive guide to bullet journals
set ups: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
inspiration tags:
simple + useful layout
beautifully illustrated!!
cute fonts & use of pictures
v creative n artsy journal
cute & colourful !
pretty + practical spreads
so artistic and innovative
washi tape & calligraphy
soft n pastel layouts
organized and neat layouts
beautifully arranged + stylish !!
clean and adorable style
tasteful and cutesy
pictures + highlighters
v innovative spreads & layouts
simplistic + muted colours !
iii. SUPPLIES
notebooks:
consider your needs:
squared | lined | dotted | blank?
bound | disk | coil | midori style | reporter?
hardcover | softcover? + colours?
popular choice: official ‘bullet journal’ | moleskine | leuchtturm 1917
more journals: cheaper moleskine alternative | grid essentials journal | piccadilly notebook | rhodia notepads | traveler’s journal
pens:
popular choice: zebra mildliners | staedtler triplus fineliners | stabilo point 88 fineliners | muji gel ink pens | pilot frixion
+ alternatives: pilot g-2 | monami aqua plus | pilot hi-tecpoint v5 | star diamond gel | candy colour ballpoint
more studyblr stationery | best school supplies
favourites + alternatives to popular stationery | even more
highlighters: koyuko 3-way highlighter | uni propus window | dong-A twinliner | stabilo boss | staedtler textsurfer highlighters
brush pens: pilot fude-makase | faber-castell | tombow
+ places to purchase stationery
a quick stationery crash course
iv. PAGES
types: daily | weekly | monthly | yearly * denotes i use it myself
front: key | table of contents | year at a glance | goals for this year
monthly: calendar* | goals / deadlines | expenses
weekly: weekly view* | food + habits | exercise | upcoming dates+events
daily: quote / song of the day | the weather | was this a productive day?*
back + other: tv show tracker | books to read* | inspirations page
+ masterpost of more page ideas | another | seasonal spreads
miscellaneous page ideas | more page & journal tips | spread ideas
“how-to” → types of pages
daily:
setting up daily spreads
daily spread layout ideas
+ more layout ideas
spread headers [daily]
5 daily logs + their uses
daily spread inspiration
weekly:
weekly spread layout ideas
+ more weekly layout formats
25 spreads and their uses
cute spread tutorial
inspiration for weeklys!! | + more insp
how to draw out a weekly spread
bullet journal weekly spread video
monthly:
visual monthly bullet journal guide
layout examples
more monthly layouts + uses
5 creative monthly spreads
bullet journal monthly spread video
monthly goals + spreads tut
spread examples:
daily: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11
weekly: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
monthly: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
cute yearly spread
movie watchlist !
monthly memories
year at a glance
another one
ideas + to dos
work/acad/life layout
financial planning
artsy weekview
goals + wishes
v. STYLING YOUR JOURNAL
handwriting & calligraphy:
cursive handwriting | 2 | 3 | 4 | tutorial
tips to neaten writing: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | + for adults | video
fonts to try | the ‘outline’ font | shadow font | + tag
highlighter + pen headers | mildliner headers
formatting headers | title ideas
quotes:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4
from: composers | artists (2) | writers | scientists | philosophers | psychologists | + extensive tag
people: leonardo da vinci | shakespeare | slyvia path
who said it? quotes
quotes that will make you shudder (2)
find more: goodreads | brainyquote | quotationspage | quoteland
get a daily quote & image in your email | +5 more websites
doodles:
reference: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | + tag
types: plants | floral + more flowers | clouds | seasonal | coffee
illustrate your notes: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
drawing ribbons | 2 | 3 | 4 | gif tutorial
visual notetaking tutorial + fundamentals
tips on visual journal/diary spreads
+ more ways to be creative with your spreads
sketchnotes:
first time guide to sketchnotes | video
about + how to add them
basic sketchnotes reference + another
reference: 1 | 2 | 3
sketchnotearmy.com
other:
journalling cards
printing on sticky notes
page flag planning
add a chronodex?
study schedules
+35 things to add
vi. ALTERNATIVES
filofax
hobonichi planner
visual journals
fragment journalling
10 types of planners
3 minute journal
gratitude journal
reading journal
apps: 24me | wunderlist | any.Do | 30/30 | iStudiez
websites & extensions: getplan.co | evernote | timetune.center
❝ Everything we do, every thought we’ve ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find. ❞
Personal growth becomes so addictive once you realize that it’s always possible to improve your experience of being.
“Happiness is not about always getting what we want, it is about embracing who we really are. Accepting this profound truth is self-realization.” -Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)
“Crystals are living beings at the beginning of creation. All things have a frequency and a vibration.” ~ Nikola Tesla
“You do not become who you really are, it is simply the discovery that you are Consciousness prior to any image, thought, label or belief.” ~Anon I mus (Spiritually Anonymous)
Step 1: begin at the beginning
read the title
get excited for cool science
note the authors
get mad at them for having more papers than you
spend ten minutes wondering if you’d have been better off going to whatever institution they’re at
die a little inside
Step 2: the abstract and introduction
read the abstract
skip right to the introduction because you’re not completely sure what they’re talking about and maybe that will clear it up
alright now we’re talking
understand the entire first paragraph of the introduction
mostly get the second and third paragraphs
skip over the technical bit at the end because boring
Step 3: the results (aka the good stuff)
read the first paragraph
really not get what’s being said
skip right to figure 1
read the figure caption
call it good, you got the jist
repeat for the remaining figures
Step 4: give up
this paper really isn’t answering the question you had in the first place
you’ll just cite it later it’s fine
Step 5: keep doing science!
fail because of some unexpected and puzzling problem
spend 2-6 weeks troubleshooting and getting nowhere
decide to do another literature search to see if anyone else has had this issue
find the same paper you read before cited a bunch
Step 6: reread
actually like read it this time
get to the end
find the answer to your question
die a little inside
wonder why you didn’t just read it fully to begin with and save yourself weeks of work
Step 7: follow citations to another paper that looks relevant
repeat entire cycle
wonder why science is so hard